The payload computer is a NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer-1 (NSSC-1) system that was built in the 1980s. "The payload computer is from the 1980s, which is when Hubble was designed and built.

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the ...

Thanks to technology, Wisconsin author Chris Hardie will never forget watching "Gunsmoke" in 'living color' on his folks' ...

The Internet Archive has announced the preservation and release of 53 episodes of The Famous Computer Cafe, a radio show that aired in California from 1983-86 and explored the topic of home ...

The iconic 1980s computer, "The Commodore 64," is coming back with a fully-functional keyboard. The blast from the past comes courtesy of manufacturer Retro Games.

By the late 1970s and into the 1980s, early personal computers, built by the likes of IBM, Xerox, Apple, Commodore, Hewlett-Packard and others, hit a nascent consumer market, billed as devices for ...

In the 1980s this was evident in their home computers, because as well as a Minitel terminal in your house, you could have an all-French machine plugged into your TV.

The Computer History Museum (CHM) has, with Adobe's permission, released the source code for an early version of PostScript, a programming language developed in the early 1980s by Adobe, which ...

In the late 1980s, computer scientist Leslie Lam­port, MA’63, PhD’72, H’17, decided the best way to explain his latest theory was to make up a story about Paxos, a small island in Greece. During ...

The rollercoaster history of computing in the UK from Amstrad to Sinclair 'How 1980s Britain fell in love with the computer.' Written by Colin Barker, Contributor July 15, 2016 at 3:21 a.m. PT ...